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US Housing Market : Jan – June 2014
New data on US housing inventory, home prices and sales, and distressed mortgages was released this week. Mixed messages from US housing data released in June are being studied by home buyers, sellers, and industry experts. Mid-year releases issued from the National Association of Realtors, S&P/Case Shiller, Trulia, and other housing analysts show that the…
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US Real Estate, Mortgages
Asking home prices rose at their slowest rate in 13 months, rising just 8 per cent year-over-year, or 7.2 per cent excluding foreclosures, according to Trulia Thursday. Although this year-over-year increase is slower than in previous months, an 8 per cent increase is still far above the long-term historical norm for home-price appreciation, the agency…
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US Pending Home Sales
Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes rose in March for the first time in nine months, a sign the housing market could be stabilizing after suffering a setback from a rise in interest rates and a severe winter. The National Association of Realtors said on Monday its Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts…
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US House Prices, Indeces
Demand Institute, a nonprofit think tank operated by The Conference Board and Nielsen released a report, “A Tale of 2000 Cities”, Wednesday which found that, of the 50 largest US metropolitan areas where housing prices are expected to appreciate between 2012 and 2018, the top five will see rises on average of 32 per cent,…
